STATUTORY RULES
1973 No.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1972.*
WHEREAS
it is provided by sub-section (4.) of section 101 of the National Health Act 1953-1972 that a drug or
medicinal preparation that was not a pharmaceutical benefit under the National Health Act 1953-1958 immediately before
the commencement of that sub-section shall not be prescribed as a
pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with section 85 of that Act unless the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee has recommended to the Minister that
it be so prescribed:
AND
WHEREAS that Committee has recommended to the Minister that the following drugs
and medicinal preparations be prescribed as pharmaceutical benefits under
section 85 of the National
Health Act 1953-1972,
namely, the drugs and medicinal preparations specified in the Third Schedule to
the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations, as amended by the
following Regulations, that had not previously been prescribed as
pharmaceutical benefits:
NOW
THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia,
acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the
following Regulations under the National Health Act 1953-1972.
Dated
this thirty-first day of January,
1973.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency's Command,
Minister of State for
Health.
Amendments of the National
Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)
Regulations
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come
into operation on the first day of February, 1973.
First Schedule.
2. The First
Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is
amended by omitting items 152, 173, 182, 256, 267, 280, 320 and 321.
Second Schedule.
3. The Second
Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is
amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Third Schedule.
4. The Third Schedule to the National Health
(Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 243
the following item:—
" 243a.
Norgestrel ".
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette 1973.
Statutory Rules 1960, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1960, Nos.
90 and 102; 1961, Nos. 59 and 137; 1962, Nos. 34, 101 and 114; 1963, Nos. 34,
69 and 107; 1964, Nos. 12, 57 and 135; 1965, Nos. 51, 151 and 152; 1966, Nos.
80 and 144; 1967, Nos. 67, 116 and 158; 1968, Nos. 44, 76, 83 and 146; 1969,
Nos. 44, 107 and 185; 1970, Nos. 39, 94, 119 and 186; 1971, Nos. 44, 101, 136
and 154; and 1972, Nos. 32, 121 and 205.
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Fifth Schedule.
5. The
Fifth Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is
amended by inserting after item 118a the following item:—
"
118b
| Megestrol
Acetate, B.P., with Ethinyloestradiol, B.P.
| Severe acne in females Hirsutism in females Sexual infantilism in females ".
|
THE SCHEDULE Regulation
3
Amendments of the
Second Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical
Benefits) Regulations
1. After item 65 insert the following item—
"
65a
| Dimethisterone
.......................................................
| Ethinyloestradiol
with Dimethisterone".
|
2. After item 76 insert the following
"
76a
| Ethinyloestradiol ............................
| Dimethisterone with Ethinyloestradiol Ethynodiol
Diacetate with Ethinyloestradiol Megestrol
Acetate with Ethinyloestradiol Norethisterone
Acetate with Ethinyloestradiol Norgestrel
with Ethinyloestradiol ".
|
3. After item 77 insert the following item—
"
77a
| Ethynodiol
Diacetate ......................
| Ethinyloestradiol with
Ethynodiol Diacetate Mestranol with Ethynodiol
Diacetate ".
|
4. After item 105 insert the following item —
" 105a
| Lynoestrenol
..................................
| Mestranol with Lynoestrenol ".
|
5. After item 112 insert the following item—
"
112a
| Megestrol
Acetate ..........................
| Ethinyloestradiol with
Megestrol Acetate ".
|
6. After item 113 insert the following item—
"
113a
| Mestranol
.......................................
| Ethynodiol Diacetate with
Mestranol Lynoestrenol with Mestranol Norethisterone with
Mestranol Norethynodrel with Mestranol
".
|
7. After item 127 insert the following items—
" 127a
| Norethisterone
................................
| Mestranol with
Norethisterone
|
127b
| Norethisterone
Acetate ...................
| Ethinyloestradiol with Norethisterone
Acetate
|
127c
| Norethynodrel
................................
| Mestranol with Norethynodrel
|
127d
| Norgestrel
......................................
| Ethinyloestradiol with
Norgestrel ".
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